Hi, I’m Rachel
Rachel Weissman is a serial entrepreneur and award-winning designer turned executive coach and keynote speaker, helping ambitious leaders transform uncertainty and change into a catalyst for growth, creativity, and innovation. As a former product design leader at Google and Salesforce AI, she shaped experiences for billions of users while cultivating over 5,000 hours of meditation practice rooted in Tibetan Buddhism. Her unique journey, spanning from Silicon Valley's highest echelons to deep spiritual exploration, has positioned her as a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern innovation.
Born with an artist's eye and an innovator's mind, Rachel earned her BFA before entering the tech world, where she would eventually lead design for Google Maps and Search—products used by over 2 billion people monthly. Her artistic foundation provided her with a unique perspective in Silicon Valley, where she observed a troubling pattern: the brightest minds were burning out while pursuing breakthroughs. This observation sparked a question that would reshape her entire career: Why did changing the world have to come at the cost of feeling alive?
Rachel's transformative journey deepened through years of Vipassana and Insight Meditation practice, including intensive retreats and volunteer service at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. While working at Salesforce, she recognized that human flourishing and technology weren't opposing forces but complementary powers waiting to be integrated. She pioneered meditation programs company-wide at Google, helping engineers and innovators access deeper states of creativity and resilience while maintaining peak performance.
Her own kundalini awakening in 2019 marked a profound transformation. What began as curiosity became a calling. Recognizing the power and delicacy of this process, she sought out masterful teachers and time-tested practices to deepen her understanding and ability to serve others graciously. She immersed herself in intensive study, completing Level 1 and 2 KAP Academy certifications with Venant Wong, and her current primary practice is Mahamudra with Dustin DiPerna.
Her work draws from Eastern lineages including Hindu tantra, Advaita Vedānta, and Buddhist traditions (Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna), as well as contemporary psychological development methods. These qualifications enable her to offer direct energy transmissions that activate the process of kundalini awakening and access to nondual states of consciousness. She guides others toward direct realization of their true nature through direct transmission, pointing out instructions, and awareness practices, holding space for authentic emergence with grounded presence and energetic sensitivity.
What distinguishes Rachel's approach is her rare ability to bridge worlds—ancient wisdom traditions meeting the complexity of modern leadership. Whether in boardrooms or meditation halls, she creates containers that are both safe and potent, meeting each person exactly where they are, without agenda or force, allowing their own wisdom to guide the unfolding. She helps leaders access their innate vitality and creative power not as an escape from high performance, but as its very source.
At Salesforce, Rachel led design for the company's pioneering AI products, launching them at Dreamforce. Her work at the forefront of AI development deepened her understanding of how technology could either elevate or exhaust humanity. She chose to be part of the solution, completing an AI Product Management certification and founding multiple ventures, including an ed-tech marketplace, an emotional intelligence training program, and a B2B AI startup focused on helping leaders enhance their communication impact.
Rachel's commitment to integration extends across all dimensions of her work. As a certified Yoga Teacher, Meditation Teacher, and Kundalini Activation Process facilitator, she enables clients to expand beyond purely cognitive frameworks. As a competitive athlete who has explored 55 countries, she brings a global perspective and embodied understanding of peak performance under pressure. Her extensive coaching certifications from the Center for Executive Coaching, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Genos International, and Noble Story Group are informed by the wisdom of legendary coaches, including Matt Mochary, John Mattone, Bill Campbell, Tony Robbins, and Martha Beck.
Her impact has been recognized across the industry. Selected as a member of Forbes Coaches Council, Rachel's articles on leadership and transformation have appeared in Forbes, Fast Company, and The Information. She has delivered transformational keynotes for Fortune 500 companies, and her workshops have helped teams at organizations worldwide transform pressure into presence and uncertainty into breakthrough innovation. Through her artistic practice, she creates installations that serve as technologies for consciousness expansion—where art, technology, and consciousness merge to create experiences that awaken rather than exhaust.
Today, Rachel partners with visionary leaders ready to access new dimensions of impact and aliveness. In a world of infinite complexity and AI acceleration, she helps them discover that the competitive advantage isn't working harder—it's seeing clearer. Her clients consistently report breakthrough results: accessing their genius without burning out, leading from presence rather than pressure, and creating cultures where innovation flows naturally from essence rather than ego.
Rachel's work is guided by a profound truth discovered through her journey: Your next breakthrough isn't only a strategy, it's a state of being. When leaders operate from their deepest vitality, they access an inexhaustible creative force that transforms everything they touch.
Currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rachel continues to explore the edges of human flourishing, helping leaders worldwide discover that their greatest impact emerges not from pushing harder, but from awakening to what's already alive within them.